We got off, though, unhurt, and brought our fish with us." Colonel Winchester's troop numbered more than a hundred men, and crossing the river they beat up the country thoroughly, but they saw no Confederate sign.

When he came back Dick told him all the details of the episode, and Colonel Winchester agreed with him that Harry had sent the warning.
"You'd better keep it to yourself," he said.

"It's too vague and mysterious to make a peg upon which to hang anything.

Since we've cleared the bush of enemies we'll go eat the fish you and your friends have caught." Sergeant Whitley cooked them, and, as Dick and a score of others sat around the fire and ate fish for supper, they were so exuberant and chaffed so much that he forgot for the time all about Slade..